Acts 22:3

Paul recounts his impeccable Jewish credentials: born in Tarsus, raised in Jerusalem, trained under Gamaliel in strict law-keeping and zeal for God. He establishes that he was no ignorant outsider but a devout Jew.

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• Phil 3:5–6circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
• Acts 26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
• Acts 9:11The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
• Acts 5:34But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
• Acts 21:39But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
• Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
• Luke 10:39She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
• 2 Cor 11:22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
• 2 Kgs 4:38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
• Deut 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
• 2 Sam 21:2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
• Acts 6:9But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
• Acts 15:23They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
• Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
• Rom 11:1I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
• Gal 4:17–18They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
• Gal 1:14I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
• Gal 1:21Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
• Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Acts 11:25Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
• Acts 23:34When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
• Luke 2:46After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
• Acts 15:41He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
• Luke 8:35People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
• Acts 9:30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

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